Don’t get us wrong, flowers are blooming lovely, but sometimes it’s nice to give – and to receive – something a bit different. But what? Well, on this week’s podzine, Steph Douglas, founder and CEO of Don't Buy Her Flowers, chats to Jen about thoughtful present giving – just in time for Christmas.

When Mandi Bharij started her sewing side hustle Make With Mandi, she had no idea her patterns and sewing tips would make her a name in the Instagram sewing space. She talks to Mick about pattern-making, the importance of visible diversity in sewing and how if you don’t ask, you don’t get.

There are big US trials and small British bus drivers in the Bush Telegraph, a symbolic FA Cup in Jenny Off The Blocks, and the awful spectre of being unmarried and working with books looms almost as large as the

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SIM Ep 676 Pod 182: Sewing, gifting and gatecrashers